What I learned in Sunday School

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Good morning; it's always a delight to see the pews crowded on Sunday
morning, and so eager to get into God's Word. Turn with me in your Bibles,
if you will, to the 47th chapter of Genesis; we'll begin our reading at
verse 13, and go through verse 27. Brother Ray, would you stand and read
that great passage for us?... ... Thank you for that fine reading, Brother
Ray.. So we see that economic hard times fell upon Egypt, and the people
turned to the government of Pharaoh to deal with this for them. And Pharaoh
nationalized the grain harvest, and placed the grain in great storehouses
that he had built. So the people brought their money to Pharaoh, like a
great tax increase, and gave it all to him willingly in return for grain.
And this went on until their money ran out, and they were hungry again. So
when they went to Pharaoh after that, they brought their livestock - their
cattle, their horses, their sheep, and their donkey - to barter for grain,
and verse 17 says that only took them through the end of that year. But the
famine wasn't over, was it? So the next year, the people came before
Pharaoh and admitted they had nothing left, except their land and their own
lives. "There is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and
our land. Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us
and our land for food, and we with our land will be servants to Pharaoh."
So they surrendered their homes, their land, and their real estate to
Pharaoh's government, and then sold themselves into slavery to him, in
return for grain. What can we learn from this, brothers and sisters? That
turning to the government instead of to God to be our provider in hard
times only leads to slavery? Yes. That the only reason government wants to
be our provider is to also become our master? Yes. But look how that
passage ends, brothers and sisters! "Thus Israel settled in the land of
Egypt , in the land of Goshen . And they gained possessions in it, and were
fruitful and multiplied greatly." God provided for His people, just as He
always has! They didn't end up giving all their possessions to the
government, no, it says they gained possessions! But I also tell you a
great truth today, and an ominous one. We see the same thing happening
today - the government today wants to "share the wealth" once again, to
take it from us and redistribute it back to us. It wants to take control of
healthcare, just as it has taken control of education, and ration it back
to us, and when government rations it, then government decides who gets it,
and how much, and what kind. And if we go along with it, and do it
willingly, then we will wind up no differently than the people of Egypt did
four thousand years ago - as slaves to the government, and as slaves to our
leaders. What Mr. Obama's government is doing now is no different from what
Pharaoh's government did then, and it will end the same..

  And a lot of people like to call Mr. Obama a "Messiah,"
  don't they?  Is he a Messiah, a savior?  Didn't the
  Egyptians say, after Pharaoh made them his slaves,
  "You have saved our lives; may it please my lord, we
  will be servants to Pharaoh"?

  Well, I tell you this Because I know the Messiah; the Messiah is
  a friend of mine; and Mr. Obama is no Messiah!  
  If Mr. Obama is a character from the Bible, then he is Pharaoh.
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